Now, accused husband’s brother goes missing
THE BROTHER OF THE HUSBAND IS SUSPECTED TO HAVE BEEN WITH HIM, WHEN HE ALLEGEDLY PUSHED HIS WIFE FROM BALCONY
GURUGRAM: Two days after the police arrested a 35-year-old woman for allegedly conspiring with her lover to kill his wife, the police, on Thursday, said the brother of the husband has gone missing.
According to the police, the brother of the husband is suspected to have been with him, when he allegedly pushed his wife from the balcony of their eighth floor apartment on the night of ‘Karvachauth’.
On October 27 at 9.37 pm, Deepika Chauhan, assistant vice-president of a private bank in the Cyber City, died after falling from the balcony of her apartment in Valley View Estate condominium.
The police had arrested Vikram Singh Chauhan, a senior executive of a private company, and booked him for murder the following day.
His paramour, Shefali Bhasin Tiwari, was arrested on Tuesday after the police had perused through their conversations on Google Talk that hinted at a conspiracy to murder Deepika and included details of a failed attempt to push her off a cliff in Nainital, two days before the incident.
Investigators probing the case said that at 7.43 pm on October 27, Shefali had sent a message to Vikram that read, “Balcony se phek do (Throw her from the balcony)”.
Sanjeev Kumar, DLF Phase-1 station house officer (SHO), who cracked the case, said that the probe had revealed that Vikram’s brother, Amit, who also works at a private company, was complicit in the murder and suspected to be present at the site of the alleged crime.
“Since the arrest of Shefali, the brother of the accused has been on the run. A police team had gone to his house and office, but could not trace him. His mobile phone is also switched off,” said Kumar.
The victim’s brother, Himanshu Ahuja, on Thursday said that minutes before the incident, Deepika had told him over text messages that things were “not fine” and that she was thinking of revealing about her husband’s alleged extra marital affair to her parents.
“For the past few months, I have been renting a room in a different tower of the same condominium. As such, I usually ate dinner at her place. On October 26, when Deepika and her husband returned from Nainital, they fought. On the Karvachauth day, she did not call or text me. When I called to check at 9.27 pm, she disconnected my call and sent a text message, asking me to manage dinner elsewhere,” said Himanshu, adding that when he asked her if she was fine, she told him that she was going to tell her parents about Vikram’s affair.
Himanshu also alleged that after Deepika was taken to the hospital, Vikram had tried to delete some messages from her mobile phone and was reluctant to hand over her mobile phone when he had asked for it.
SHO Kumar said the victim’s phone was a case property and the police team was probing if any incriminating messages were deleted from the phone, as alleged by her brother.